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Flask (Main View- spout to side)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A free-blown flask of translucent cobalt blue glass. The body is spherical with the mouth fashioned into a spout. The rim is crafted from a separate, milky-white glass. There is a small pontil mark on the underside and some incrustation and weathering around the inside of the mouth and around the outside of the body and neck.
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Details
- Title: Flask (Main View- spout to side)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1st - 2nd century
- Location Created: Eastern Mediterranean
- Physical Dimensions: 6 × 5.7 cm (2 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
- Type: Flask
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Glass
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 2003.373
- Culture: Roman
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Vessels (Containers)
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